The_Yellow_Wallpaper_-_A_Reaction

The Yellow Wallpaper - A Reaction Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 19th century literary story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, has had many minds pondering her thoughts and ideas about the women “role” for over one hundred years. Works such as this piece are quite unique in the array of different views and perceptions an individual could take from their interpretation of the reading. Seeing the true meaning of the story and relating it to the proper time period proves to show a clear correlation between the story and people in the 1800’s. A brief look at this story tells the reader of a woman, believed to be sick, staying in an “institution”. This isn’t a normal looking institution though because it is concealed as a summer home possibly for the reason to soften the ‘institutionalized feeling’ for the patient. The woman’s name is believed to be Jane and she has a passion for writing. She yearns to write as much as she possibly could in a day, if only her condition didn’t exhaust her of energy. John is Jane’s caring, loving husband who is also her physician. He diagnoses her and treats her for “temporary nervous depression” (Gilman 42). Staying in yellow, wallpaper, jane, women, society, woman, gilman, john, century, 19th, story, patriarchal, one, time, staying, societies, people, creep, begins, 1800’s, true, treatment, tells, suppression, sometimes, says, possibly, own, out, night, males, late, jane’s, husband, herself